Mother-daughter duo become first Caribbean women to fly into space Antiguan trailblazers Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastasia Mayers travelled 55 miles above the Earth on the Virgin Galactic spacecraft
Antiguan trailblazers Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastasia Mayers travelled 55 miles above the Earth on the Virgin Galactic spacecraftA MOTHER and daughter from Antigua have spoken of their “amazing” experience after becoming the first women from the Caribbean to fly into space.
And according to Virgin Galactic, Anastasia became the youngest person to have travelled into space by just a matter of weeks. Schahaf and Mayers were joined on the flight by Jon Goodwin, a former British Olympic canoeist. Goodwin, who is living with Parkinson’s disease. The fact that I am here, the first to travel to space from Antigua, shows that space really is becoming more accessibleSpeaking ahead of the flight she said: “My mom read about the competition back in 2021 while we were on our way to another Caribbean Island to get my visa for studying at the University of Aberdeen.
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